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The ‘puntstempels‘ (dot- or numeral cancels) are an interesting collecting field in the Netherlands and the former colonies. Those of Suriname you do not come across every day, and luxury copies are not common at all. A combination of a ‘puntstempel’ of Suriname together with …
Generally, correspondence originating from government agencies will be sent free of postage. I always thought that this meant that ‘nobody’ paid for this but this was not the case. The Government had a contract with the P.T.T. stipulating that the P.T.T. would handle the Government’s …
I have often been amazed by what people write on postcards, which, after all, can be read by anyone who gets to handle them during delivery. The back of the post card shown in Figure 1 is such an example. The text reads (translated from …
door 
door 
door